Broken Fields by Marcie Rendon

Fans of Marcie Rendon’s Cash Blackbear mystery series will thrill at her newest installment, BROKEN FIELDS.

While plowing a field on Bud Borgeron’s farm one morning, she notes a car running in the driveway of a house across the road. When it’s still running hours later, she decides to investigate. Inside the house, she finds the body of Bud Borgeron, shot to death, and a four-year-old girl hiding under the bed upstairs. She learns the girl’s name is Shawnee, though the child is not speaking, probably due to shock. The child’s father is working out of town and her mother is missing. Just the kind of mystery that sleuth Blackbear is cut out for. The child is cared for by the same social worker that worked on Cash Blackbear’s case as a child, and there is no love lost between the two. But Cash is sly and with her sixth sense, she gets things done.

Cash is attending college with the encouragement of Sheriff Wheaton. If she can get her law enforcement degree, she can officially become a sheriff’s deputy and get paid to do the investigating she currently does for free for Wheaton. When Wheaton is duped by several bank robbers who lock him in his trunk … who saves the day … but Cash Blackbear.

There’s a lot to love in this fourth installment of the Cash Blackbear series. Hopefully, Marcie Rendon has already written the next.

This is Lin Salisbury with Superior Reviews. Marcie Rendon will be teaching at the North Shore Readers and Writers Festival in November. Registration is open on the Grand Marais Art Colony website.